THE AIKIBUDOKAN

An Elite Academy Of Martial Arts

Practical Self-Defense & Classical Weapons for Houston Martial Artists

Congratulations to Warren N. on his promotion to Yonkyu in Aikido. Remember that every kyu promotion contains several ideas. First,...

We're still open for training in spite of Covid, pandemics, and WWIII (hopefully not). St. Paddy Day is always a good excuse to skip...

A couple of weeks ago we had a visitor who had been training at another dojo in town for quite a while; several years actually. However,...

Congratulations to Warren on his promotion to Gokyu and congratulations to Patrick, Tommy, and David on their promotions to Nikyu. It is...

The holidays have come and gone and for many martial artists (who spent the last year getting back into the action in the dojo and...

The year is slowly coming to a close and while many of us are not happy with how fast time can fly by before we even realize it, we are...

Older folks (including myself) have always disliked Daylight Savings Time. Brought in during the Johnson administration (and really...

Congratulations to Kyle on his promotion to Gokyu. He is a new member of the dojo and has been training hard. That first promotion may...

Congratulations to James and Jose on their promotion to Ikkyu. Ikkyu in the Tomiki Ryu is one short step away from Shodan so even though...

Life moves forward (even for the zombies among us). Classes come and deshi go to class (or they don't) but what that means is that every...

Yesterday we announced the closure of the dojo due to the inbound Hurricane Nicolas. The west side of Houston was largely spared other...

In order to make the trip to the dojo as safe as we are able, we watch the weather reports and will if necessary cancel classes since...

The summer is just about done; if not in our thoughts then certainly by the calendar. While summer is always a great time to relax from...

Dog Days of Summer just ended. But the heat didn't. Already did the BBQ thing, and the beach thing, and the camping thing, and the...

Well, actually the old saying was, "Surf's Up" but then I was never really a surfer (but I was a pretty good beach bum in my Hawaiian...

It seems like only yesterday ..... uh, never mind ...... it seems like forever ago that life was normal and people weren't wearing masks,...

The year 2020 was "un-fun" as a friend of mine once put it. Forget the politics and just focus on the pandemic issues that closed dojo,...

2020. A year that no-one will forget (unless you are a monk on top of Mount Koyasan and have no access to media or the news). A year...

Many folks are so concerned about being ill they have sequestered themselves away from the world and the activities that they once...

Congratulations to Chris J. on his promotion to Shodan (1sr Dan) in Aikido and Edgar B. on his promotion to Nidan (2nd Dan) in Aikido. ...